In 1951, Columbia’s Charles Townes came up with the idea for the device that led to the laser. It earned him a Nobel Prize.

Now a UK-based team of scientists have developed a new platform for the generation and detection of ultrashort UV-C laser pulses on femtosecond timescales. They say that this achievement “could unlock ...

Sydney researchers reduce noise in chip-scale laser paving advances in quantum, navigation and communications.

Elon Musk stated in an interview with Nikhil Kamath that Starlink cannot match the speed of urban cellular networks due to ...

How will defects in the material improve the capabilities of satellites and help create new flexible microelectronics devices?

Musk explained that Starlink is complementary to existing telecom companies. It works best in rural and remote areas where laying fibre cables or building high-bandwidth towers is difficult and ...

Elon Musk said the Starlink program is delivering “low-cost, reliable internet throughout the world” and expressed hope to expand operations to India. Speaking on the People by WTF podcast, he ...

Photons, for centuries both a puzzle and a tool, continue to help scientists illuminate nature at the smallest and largest ...

Elon Musk told Nikhil Kamath on People by WTF that Starlink will soon launch in India, bringing fast internet to remote ...

Discover which Naruto characters would thrive in the One Piece world and which ones would struggle to survive.

The behavior of complex materials, such as gels and glasses, determines their stability and properties over time. To better understand their evolution, a team of researchers from Politecnico di Milano ...

Elon Musk explains that Starlink's satellite-based internet cannot compete with cell towers in dense cities due to physics.